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Appendix H Monotheistic Religion Elements Matrix

JUDAISM JUDAISM WAS ORIGINATED IN THE MIDDLE EAST. ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB, MOSES WERE ALL IMPORTANT FIGURES. MOSES LEADING THE PEOPLE OUT OF EGYPTIAN SLAVERY. BELIEF THAT THEY ARE CHOSEN THE ONES. BELIEVE IN ONLY ONE GOD. CHRISTIANITY CHRISTIANITY ORIGINATED IN ISRAEL. ISLAM ISLAM WAS ORIGINATED IN SAUDI ARABIA.

COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN

HISTORICAL FIGURES AND EVENTS

JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS AND WAS RESURRECTED FROM HIS TOMB. THE BIRTH OF JESUS.

ABRAHAM, ISHMAEL, AND MUHAMMAD WERE IMPORTANT FIGURES.

CENTRAL BELIEFS

BELIEF IN THE 10 COMMANDMENTS AND THE BIBLE. THEY BELIEVE IN FOLLOWING ONE SET OF RULES SET BY THE BIBLE.

BELIEF IN ONE GOD-ALLAH. THE BELIEF IN ALL GODS MESSENGERS AND THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD.

NATURE OF GOD

MONOTHEISTIC, FORM OF A SPIRIT.

FATHER, SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THEIR BELIEF OF THE NATURE OF GOD

ALLAH IS THE CREATOR AND SUSTAINER OF THE UNIVERSE, HE IS ABOVE ALL OTHERS. THEY READ FROM THE QURAN.

TEXTS

THE OLD TESTAMENT IS THE TEXT THEY READ FROM. A MAIN PRACTICE IS NOT TO EAT UNCLEAN ANIMALS. HANUKKAH IS WHAT THEY CELEBRATE. THEY LIVE BY STRICT RULES AND MORALS THAT ARE JEWISH LAW. THEY FOLLOW 613 COMMANDMENTS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.

THE NEW TESTAMENT OF THE BIBLE IS THEIR READINGS.

RITUAL AND PRACTICE

MASS EVERY SUNDAY AND ON HOLY HOLIDAYS. LENT, EASTER, CHRISTMAS, AND ASH WEDNESDAY.

TO PRAY DAILY, FASTING, AND PILGRIMAGE TO MAKAH.

ETHICS AND MORALITY

THE LAWS SET BY THE BIBLE AND THE 10 COMMANDMENTS ARE THE MORAL LAWS WHICH ARE FOLLOWED.

TO DO NO EVIL, FORGIVE EVERYONE AND SHOW KINDNESS, AND TO FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD.